imprint of Palmer, Butte, Montana; circa 1900, signed in negative "W.H. Taylor, Scout." An aged Taylor stands in buckskins with his Sharp's carbine. This is H.M. Taylor, a scout with General Alfred Terry who discovered the Custer massacre and was the first to deliver the news to the Army.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"Always get the water for the coffee upstream from the herd"

Cabinet Card by Stacy of Frontier Scout John Y. Nelson,(1826-1903) dressed in Western garb smoking a pipe and posing with a lever-action Winchester. Nelson had a long and fabled career on the Plains. Leaving his native West Virginia he was on the Plains by 1844, living for a time with Spotted Tail's band of Brule Sioux, before signing on for $40 a month acting as a guide for Brigham Young in 1847. He was with the burial party at the Mountain Meadow Massacre, and spent a number of years working cattle in Colorado and Utah. He helped build the buildings at the Pine Ridge Reservation and served there for a time as chief of police. He claimed to have met Buffalo Bill in 1857, and became a fast friend. Cody referred to Nelson as "good fellow though as a liar he had few equals and no superiors." He joined Cody's "Wild West" in 1884 and was with the outfit for many years

Montana Frontiersman. Image shows a man standing against a forest backdrop wearing a bullet belt and casually leaning on his rifle.

A Western Scout, cabinet card of an unidentified young man dressed in buckskin jacket and pants with broad-brimmed felt hat and wearing a pair of Plains beaded moccasins and a Plains beaded knife sheath with knife. He holds a Colt-type pocket revolver in his hand and wears a U.S. Army cartridge belt and plate.

A young scout in high boots, buckskin jacket leaning on a Winchester lever action rifle.

Western Scout, He wears buckskins, with a fancy vest, and at his neck a bold bandanna. Sharpshooter pins are clearly visible on his lapels. He wears a holstered single-action, and holds his lever-action rifle

Frontiersman

Cavalry Scout, with his broad brimmed hat in hand and a shotgun in right, wearing cavalry type boots and gun belt with holstered revolver and ammo for trapdoor Springfield rifle.